The mailer comes from the Neighborhood Market Association, which has endorsed Qualcomm executive Nathan Fletcher. Association president Mark Arabo said his group is funding several pieces that will land in mailboxes over the next few days.

“We’re going to do pieces over the next eight days highlighting the inconsistencies of the other candidates,” Arabo said. “After all the attack ads against Nathan, we need to level the playing field.”

The anti-Alvarez mailer contends he “failed to deliver for neighborhoods in his own council district” and can’t be trusted to deliver for the entire city.

While the mailer is not from a Fletcher-controlled campaign, early in the race he challenged his opponents to run clean campaigns free of attacks and to speak out against attacks waged by their supporters.

“Apparently with less than two weeks until Election Day, Nathan and his friends are getting desperate and will try anything it takes to stop their slide in the polls, including once again breaking his positive campaign pledge to voters,” said Gabriel Solmer, Alvarez for Mayor campaign manager.

Meanwhile, updated money figures show that more than $4.2 million has been raised by the three leading candidates, Kevin Faulconer, Alvarez and Fletcher. While those three and committees supporting them have raised more than $1 million each, former City Attorney Mike Aguirre has taken in less than $6,000.

Aguirre picked up the endorsement of La Prensa San Diego. In an editorial, the newspaper noted Aguirre once defended Cesar Chavez and has long stood with the Latino community. Aguirre said he’s pointing to the endorsement as he campaigns for the Latino vote. “I want everyone to endorse David but vote for me,” he said in reference to Alvarez’s string high-profile endorsements.

Faulconer on Friday announced the winners of a student-produced television commercial contest he sponsored. The nod went to a group of Point Loma Nazarene students led by Emily Lehman and Justin Vos, the latter a worker with the county Republican Party assigned to the Faulconer campaign.

Three candidates will be in city neighborhoods Saturda stumping for votes. Fletcher won’t be — he’ll in Arkansas where he was raised to attend the dedication of a stadium being named for two cousins killed in fighting in Afghanistan.

Hendrix College in the city of Conway is designating its new athletic field Young-Wise Stadium, the latter name a reference to Fletcher cousins Jeremy and Benjamin Wise. Jeremy Wise, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, died in 2009 while working for the CIA in Afghanistan. His brother, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Wise and a Green Beret, died in January 2012 from wounds suffered while fighting in northern Afghanistan.